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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2924, 11 April 1891, Page 2

The doctors, or sonic of them, are busy with Koch's consumption cure. Very little faith they can have had in their ancient methods of treatment, or they would not be so ready to leave them to experiment with one which, in the words of Pasteur, "is more deadly than the venom of any snake." It is heartrending to read that children who can have no voice in the matter are being inoculated, The rational proba bility, judging by the history of " tin; cure " in Europe, is that many of thoni will be killed outright, and that more will have the brief remaining span of their earthly existence rendered more miserable and painful than would otherwise have been the case. It is said that parents and guardians have consented to surrender the tender bodies of their charges to the bloodpoisoning lancet. This reminds one of the patriot who was willing in his zeal for his country to sacrifice all his able-bodied relations. Perhaps, however, the insurance and burial societies, which take risks on the lives of children, will have something to say about the practice. Professor Henoch, the great authority on children's diseases at the Berlin hospital, after witnessing the havoc which has been wrought, has finally resolved not to make any more experiments with the lymph. Our Australian sawbones appear to be much less scrupulous.